Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-06-15
DAKOTA NEWS.

There 10 talk Of paper barrel factory
at Sioux Falls.
An insane man is dying Of erysipelas
in the Sioux Falls Jail.
Bismarck has . bicycle club Of mine
members, oil Of whom ere good cyclists.
Moody county farmers contemplate
organizing an agricultural association.
--Sanborn has no bonded indebtedness,
and in few months will not owe dollar.
The new artesian we'll at Huron has
pressure Of $50 pounds to the square
inch.
Columbia will use the courts in her Of
forts to retain the county seat Of Brown
county.
The government steamer Josephine ID
at Fort Benton and will work on the upper
Missouri.
Several buffalo have bssu seen In the
hills q wssasrn LaMouEs eoanAy ~
spring.
During thunder storm, stepson oi
Ole Larson, near Valley City, was killed by
lightning.
Tho editors Of the territory propose "a
have an excursion this year in spite Of the
interstate law.
Eighteen regular trains now run into
Canton daily and two passenger trains stop
there for dinner.
The capacity Of the Watertown dour-
ing mill has been increased from so to 10C
barrels per day.
Tho Mail is the name of new pa
per just started at Edgeley. the terminal
town of the Milwaukee.
Charles Spencer, prominent citizen
Of Pierre, has been indicted by the grand
jury for cattle stealing.
1t is estimated that $500 Dakota
farmers are members of the alliance. The
number OF societies are 426.
The sale Of lots at auction in the new
town Of Spencer was we'll attended and lots
to the value of $4,000 were sold.
Tho saloon Of the Donovan Brothers, al
Elkton, was robbed of a considerable
amount OF money the other night.
Burglars at Fargo robbed tho house ol
Deputy Sheriff McCarty of s17 and .
watch, irst chloroforming Mr.. McCarty.
Nine years ago the first white settler
arrived in the Washington Hills. At thai
time railroads were almost unknown in the
territory.
Aberdeen innocents have been buying
water for gasoline, and as . result pro-
family Is alarmingly on the increase among
the hired girls.
The contracts have been let for the
erection of o three story brick veneered
hotel at DeSmet. the cost OF the building
to be $500.
Armour wants Touring mill, an artesiar
we'll, more tenement houses, incorporation,
street sprinkler, hook and ladder company,
and the county scat.
"A colony Of about 200 people from the
borders Of the sec OF Asov in southern
Russia, are locating in the western part oi
Edmunds county.
-Brule county homesteaders have beer
proving up by scores this spring, large
number Of The settlers having located in
that county several years ago.
A real estate deal for terminal property
for the Aberdeen, Bismarck and North
western railroad has just been closed al
Bismarck, SEQ, 900 being paid.
james 7. Applewhite has been ap-
pointed special agent Of the general land
Office, and assigned to duty in the Devils
Lake and Grand Forks districts.
Edwin H. Keys, and old man of u
and physical wreck, was placed in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary for assault with
intent to commit rape on . young girl.
The Territorial veterinarian havine
found glandered horses at Bismarck, hal
ordered q number killed, and the barn
where they were kept destroyed by Ere.
The house of Rev. B. Metzke. . Ger
man Baptist minister Of Campbell county,
was consumed by fire recently. Tho house
aad its contents were valued at $1,000
and were uninsured.
The new change Of railroad time ID
popular already with vermillionites. The
present moving Of trains helps that place
quite little, giving two passenger trains
each way per day,
Pierre is about to secure grove neal
the city o. park. II 10 o tract Of aboui
hfty acres, mostly covered with beautiful
trees, and can readily be converted into
one Of the finest parks in the west
Company G, Dakota National guards
Of Huron, is without captain, by req.
son Of Captain Wilson's resignation. At.
torney Crofoot, who was in the West Point
academy for two years. is urged TO accept
it,
An agen. for . hotel In Grand Fork,
was arrested and fined e5 for not clesnine
up about the premises. He set up the. de-
Tense that the occupants were the ones ID
do the work, but the justice couldn't ses 4
In that light.
--Groton is having quite an experience
with an artesian we'll, the water havine
forced an opening about two blocks north
Of the mouth Of the we'll, and there an
grave approximations Of trouble from ths
eccentric spouter.
There u much excitement at Huron
over the question Of locating the town
hall, south side business men having se-
cured an injunction restraining the issue
and sale Of bonds for the erection Of I
building on the site selected BY tho coun-
ell.
-. II. Drake, Of Sioux Falls, says II